On the occasion of the Turkish Cypriot leader's new contacts on the issue of the missing persons, the "presidency" of Ersin Tatar criticizes the Greek Cypriot side in a written statement. The Turkish Cypriot leadership claims that it is the Greek Cypriot side that is delaying the work of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP).
According to the Press and Information Office, "Gouness" writes that in a written statement the "presidency" makes reference to a meeting of Mr. Tatar with the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, in which the Turkish Cypriot leader said that the majority of Turkish Cypriot missing persons were civilians abducted from their homes, their jobs or hospitals by Greek Cypriots during the period 1963-74, that new Turkish Cypriots were added to the list of missing persons in 1974, and that the majority of the Greek Cypriot missing persons consisted of soldiers.
According to the statement, the Greek Cypriot side attempts to "cultivate the impression that the issue of missing persons concerns only Greek Cypriot missing persons, blames the Turkish side and tries to prevent the international community from scrutinizing the Turkish Cypriot missing persons. (Further), the Greek Cypriot side is responsible for the ICJ's failure to open the mass grave of Turkish Cypriots located in Aloa."
The T/C leadership goes on to say that "we welcome the finding of the working group, which shared its findings with the public on 12 April 2022 before leaving our island, to accelerate the work of the ICJ."
Source: CNA
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